Named entities : recognition, classification, and use / edited by Satoshi Sekine, Elisabete Ranchhod.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sekine, Satoshi.

Ranchhod, Elisabete, 1948-

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 19.

Benjamins current topics ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Onomastics.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

168 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Named Entities provides critical information for many NLP applications. Named Entity recognition and classification (NERC) in text is recognized as one of the important sub-tasks of Information Extraction (IE). The seven papers in this volume cover various interesting and informative aspects of NERC research. Nadeau & Sekine provide an extensive survey of past NERC technologies, which should be a very useful resource for new researchers in this field. Smith & Osborne describe a machine learning model which tries to solve the over-fitting problem. Mazur & Dale tackle a common problem of NE and conjunction; as conjunctions are often a part of NEs or appear close to NEs, this is an important practical problem. A further three papers describe analyses and implementations of NERC for different languages: Spanish (Galicia-Haro & Gelbukh), Bengali (Ekbal, Naskar & Bandyopadhyay), and Serbian (Vitas, Krstev & Maurel). Finally, Steinberger & Pouliquen report on a real WEB application where multilingual NERC technology is used to identify occurrences of people, locations and organizations in newspapers in different languages.The contributions to this volume were previously published in Lingvisticae Investigationes 30:1 (2007).

Contents:

A survey of named entity recognition and classification / David Nadeau and Satoshi Sekine

Diversity in logarithmic opinion pools / Andrew D.M. Smith and Miles Osborne

Handling conjunctions in named entities / Pawel Mazur and Robert Dale

Complex named entities in Spanish texts : structures and properties / Sofia N. Galicia-Haro and Alexander Gelbukh

Named entity recognition and transliteration in Bengali / Asif Ekbal, Sudip Kumar Naskar and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

A note on the semantic and morphological properties of proper names in the Prolex project / Duško Vitas, Cvetana Krstev, and Denis Maurel

Cross-lingual named entity recognition / Ralf Steinberger and Bruno Pouliquen.

Notes:

"Previously published in Lingvisticae investigationes 30:1 (2007)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612245312

9781282245310

1282245317

9789027289223

9027289220

OCLC:

503003415